Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 17
It was not stork-papa, who, although he stood on guard on one leg, could sleep soundly.
Who acts: watcher, stork papa · What happens: not be, stand, sleep · To what, where: stork papa, guard
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watcher, stork papa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 papa | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 papa | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 papa | advmod |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 papa | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 stork | punct |
| 6 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 papa | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 guard | case |
| 14 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 leg | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 leg | nummod |
| 17 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleep | punct |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleep | aux |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 papa | parataxis |
| 21 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 20 sleep | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 papa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | watcher | stork papa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | stork papa | guard | on one leg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location | |||
| 3 | sleep | could | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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